{"id":362,"date":"2015-12-19T20:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=362"},"modified":"2015-12-19T20:16:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T20:16:55","slug":"a-way-its-all-mangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2015\/12\/a-way-its-all-mangled\/","title":{"rendered":"A Way It’s All Mangled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"[play]\"\/A Way Its All Mangled<\/a> (2015)<\/p>\n

If you like this piece, please consider donating to Shelter<\/a>, a charity that deals with homelessness in the UK.<\/p>\n

This piece uses both the British and American melodies for Away in a Manger<\/em>. I found a hymn-foccussed website<\/a> that had both versions, which was especially good as both were in the same tempo and key, with all the same presets, so the files were already very closely related.<\/p>\n

Then I forked wslib, which has some nice SuperCollider classes for reading MIDI files, but the method that outputs arrays for use in patterns was kind of broken, so I made some changed there. Then I wrote a quantising function and made lists of all the unique note, duration pairs (or chord duration pairs) in both pieces. A lot of the same pairs appeared in both. I gave each pair an ID, so that each song could be expressed as a list of IDs<\/p>\n

I used the lists of IDs to generate Markov chains. Then I just kept asking for the next one for two minutes and ended a minor chord.<\/p>\n

The sound synthesis is based on Nick Collins’s demo of how to synthesize a soprano<\/a>. I added an envelope to add some unvoiced transients at the start of every note, plus panning, etc.<\/p>\n

This track is part of a larger project, \u201912 days of Crimbo\u2019, which will raise funds for homeless and\/or LGBT charities.<\/p>\n

\"Play\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 2:05 — 2.9MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Way Its All Mangled (2015) If you like this piece, please consider donating to Shelter, a charity that deals with homelessness in the UK. This piece uses both the British and American melodies for Away in a Manger. I found a hymn-foccussed website that had both versions, which was especially good as both were […]<\/p>\n

\"Play\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 2:05 — 2.9MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,8],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-90","category-supercollider","tag-christmas","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}